[Verginius Rufus]

My Revolutionary War ancestor (Virginia militia) was born in 1744 and died in 1822. He is 7 generations back. I joined the SAR under him but later added a "supplemental" for his father who had patriotic service.

That's on my mother's side.

My father's parents were immigrants (1914). It's my paternal grandfather's paternal grandfather who was born in 1780--he never came to the United States. His son (b. 1835) was an employee on a merchant ship and once was in New York harbor but never lived in the US. He was 59 when my grandfather was born.

[ckilmer]

Yeah, I’m in the SAR in Northern VA but I’m not active. I get their email all the time.

My mothers side came later. they came in time for the civil war.

I think that a lot of American history is being buried and covered over. The geneologies serve as portals to the older america that is gone and not really remembered much. Sadly the reason is that fewer and fewer american have ancestors from those ages. so stories pf those ages are not also family stories for many if not— most americans.